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Rohansiyesterday at 7:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

Assuming you're referring to Apple Silicon's memory bandwidth, that is not necessarily because the memory is on-die. The bandwidth comes from having more channels to access memory. This gives the SoC a wider bus to increase throughput vs. your typical x86 system with two channels. For whatever reasons Intel/AMD decided that two channels is all the typical consumer chips can support now so it's on them.


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Melatonicyesterday at 8:34 PM

On laptops right? Weve seen more channels for years elsewhere

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dehuggeryesterday at 7:23 PM

Ah I see, thanks for breaking it down.